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Former Oregon Dentist Pleads Guilty in Federal Drug Case

… Charges for Fraudulently Obtaining Millions in COVID-19 Relief Funds PORTLAND, Ore. —A former Clackamas, Oregon …
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Recent DEA Seizures of Pill Presses

April 09, 2024
… and dies were ordered from e-commerce websites with direct delivery from China. The pill press transactions had not …
April 09, 2024
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Georgia

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In North Carolina

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In North Carolina

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Georgia

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In South Carolina

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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Residents In The Pacific Northwest Turned In Over 13.8 Tons In DEA’s National Drug Take-Back Day

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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Houston Physician And Pain Management Clinic Owner Convicted Of Running “pill Mill” That Provided Unlawful Prescriptions For Millions Of Doses Of Opioids And Other Controlled Substances

… Houston Physician And Pain Management Clinic Owner Convicted Of Running “pill … A federal jury found a Houston physician and the owner of a pain management clinic guilty for their roles in running a …
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Former Health Care Center Nursing Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl And Other Pain Killers

… Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl And Other Pain Killers October 09, 2014 New York Contact Info Contact …
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Van Zandt County Man Sentenced For Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations

… discovered a pistol, over 77 grams of marijuana and 329 grams of methamphetamine.  This case was prosecuted as …
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DEA, ICE, PRPD Arrests 3 And Seize Nearly 560 Kilograms Cocaine

… In this particular seizure, agents and officers seized 32.9 kilograms of cocaine and a loaded pistol from a Dodge …
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Miami doctor arrested for overprescribing oxycodone resulting in death

… charges of conspiracy to dispense controlled substances, delivery of controlled substances and manslaughter. An … that she was Sigler’s doctor and had prescribed him Percocet (a combination of acetaminophen and oxycodone). She …
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Info for Teens

January 29, 2026
… look like prescription drugs such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), and alprazolam (Xanax®); … A person who overdoses on an opioid (like a prescription pain medication, heroin, or fentanyl) experiences slower …
January 29, 2026
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Justice Department Sues Stockton-based Nurse Practitioner to Stop Her Sale of Illegal Opioid Prescriptions

… or any other infrastructure required to treat chronic pain. According to the complaint, Rubinger sold opioid … a wide variety of medical conditions, including Oxycodone, Percocet, Xanax, and Adderall, some of which can be …
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Reno Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Involuntary Manslaughter Of Patient And Unlawful Distribution Of Large Quantities Of Prescription Drugs

… addition to oxycodone, Rand prescribed the second patient Percocet, hydrocodone, and fentanyl as well as other … information on opioid overdose and how someone can manage pain without prescription drugs, visit …
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Metro-West Drug Traffickers Charged In Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… affidavit details Bourque’s distribution of thousands of (Percocet) pills to both re-distributors and drug customers.  … message that trafficking and distributing prescription pain medication will not be tolerated and we will utilize …
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Father and Son Admit Trafficking Cocaine to St. Louis

… Jr. and/or Dixson III would send couriers to Texas to buy kilograms of cocaine from Miguel Angel Gonzalez, who … to St. Louis to pick up drug proceeds and coordinated the delivery of the money by Dixson III with father and son. In … 2021, Quintin Deforest Adkins drove to Texas with cash to buy six kilograms of cocaine. That vehicle was seized, and …
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DEA-Led Investigation Results In Convictions For 2 In “Pill Mill”

… in a scheme to illicitly obtain prescriptions for pain medications, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, and … Viator in Scott, Louisiana. On November 15, 2013, before delivery, both packages were seized by law enforcement in …
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Former Doctor and Her Wife Sentenced for Fraud and Other Crimes

… for drug crimes, health care fraud, and COVID-19 disaster relief fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, FBI … for and obtained more than $450,000 in COVID-19 disaster relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) …
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DEA Rocky Mountain Division Announces Record Fentanyl Seizures in 2022

… oversaturated drug market.  Anyone, including our kids, can buy dangerous and deadly drugs at the click of a button. … to real prescription medications—including OxyContin®, Percocet®, and Xanax®—but only contain filler and fentanyl, …
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Americans Turn Out In Droves For DEA’s Seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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Successful 2013 National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In Puerto Rico And The U.S. Virgin Islands

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In South Carolina

… stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, but in … responsible and secure way to dispose of their meds, DEA launched its first Take-Back event in September …
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51 Arrested In Major Heroin Takedown

… recent new heroin users had previously abused prescription pain relievers.  The reasons an individual shifts from one … on the streets during the course of enforcement, such as a buy-walk, or buy-bust operation. Fentanyl cases in 2014 have been …
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Nassau Doctor Sentenced to Up to 15 Years in Prison for Overprescription of Opioids that Led to Five Deaths

… history or exam. In some cases, he prescribed opioid painkillers at patients’ request to individuals he had never … 1976, and had no specialized training or accreditation in pain management. As a result of his prescribing practices, … thousands of pills of the drugs alprazolam, oxycodone, and Percocet. At one point, Blatti prescribed Mielinis nine …
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Newark Man Sentenced To More Than 24 Years In Prison For Role In Heroin Distribution Conspiracy

… and around New Jersey. Agents overheard Pender agreeing to buy heroin from others and observed Pender meeting with … area on Dec. 9, 2009, and witnessed him making a drug delivery of approximately four kilograms of heroin, which …
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DEA’s Third Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee

… Day on October 29, 2011, turned in approximately 6,329.4 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and … abuse in America. The total number of drugs taken back in (6329.4 pounds ) speaks volumes about the problem of unused …